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Brains vs Hands: How to Run AI Agents Safely in Production — Viren Baraiya

Brains vs Hands: How to Run AI Agents Safely in Production — Viren Baraiya

Viren Baraiya, CTO of Orkes and original creator of Netflix Conductor, explains why production agents behave like applications built from microservices. He argues for splitting the work between a non-deterministic LLM that plans and a deterministic, durable harness that executes, with approval gates, idempotent steps, and recorded side effects. He frames agent harnesses as late-bound sagas and demos an SRE remediation agent whose plan is compiled into a Conductor workflow.

Orchestras, Not Factories: How the Fastest Builders Work — Charlie Holtz, Conductor

Orchestras, Not Factories: How the Fastest Builders Work — Charlie Holtz, Conductor

Charlie Holtz, co-founder and CEO of Conductor, shares six principles he has observed among the best AI-assisted builders, including staying near the frontier, creating slop-free zones, and giving agents cloud sandboxes. He also demos real-time collaboration and phone-initiated agents, and argues for orchestras over factories, with humans at the center of AI-driven development.